Bing Search Share Up, Google Down for July

Microsoft managed to carve out a little more of the search engine market in July. The company's new Bing engine rose for from 8.4- to 8.9-percent that month, a rise that can almost certainly be attributed to that user-created Bing Jingle that won't leave our brains.

Microsoft managed to carve out a little more of the search engine market in July. The company's new Bing engine rose for from 8.4- to 8.9-percent that month, a rise that can almost certainly be attributed to that user-created Bing jingle that won't leave our brains.

That's the second month in a row that the site saw an increase, rising from 8.0- to 8.4-percent in June. Google and Yahoo both dipped for the month. Google dropped from 65.0- to 64.7-percent and Yahoo went from 19.6- to 19.3-percent.

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Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. ... See Full Bio

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